I had a co-worker that I was very attracted to. I was dating someone else that I was happy with, so I didn’t do anything about it. It turned out he was just as attracted to me. One day at a party we got together. It was beautiful and magical but we carried on in secret. We talked to each other at work and were texting each other nearly every night. Then he went on a month long trip to another country. I saw pictures of him with another woman on his social media. I was really hurt by this but had no reason to be as we did not have a committed relationship.

I was following the practices from The Magic and reading The Secret Stories at this time for strength and to ease my broken heart. I thought about how to “let it go” and imagined a butterfly. I thought of the saying “If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn’t, it never really was yours in the first place.” Every time my heart started to ache, I pictured a butterfly and me gently releasing it into the breeze. I stopped looking at his social media and put him out of my mind to the best of my ability. I made myself think the happiest of thoughts and distracted myself. I started seeing butterfly images all over and everywhere! I would see them multiple times a day and in the most unexpected places.

Then one night I had an incredibly vivid dream. He was back in town and very tan. He was wearing a bright, ironed crisp white shirt. He held me and said, “It feels so good to have you back in my arms again.” It felt so real! When I woke up, I could not get the image out of my mind. I kept seeing him superimposed against reality and I really felt like he was in my room with me. I could not shake it off.

Then the next day he messaged me saying he was in town and had been for the past two weeks! I told him I had a feeling that he was here. The day after that I went to work. I could not believe it when I saw him. Just like my dream, he was tan and wearing a bright white shirt. I was stunned. This was a year ago.

We have since developed this wonderful, intimate friendship that carries on to this day. I think the hardest part is letting go. If you can just release whatever you desire, trust the Universe with blind faith and think the most positive thoughts you can, you can achieve absolutely anything.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. There is hope for us all!